To a person of solid nerves a banshee may be an entertaining companion, and an apparition in a well-worn winding-sheet may be a pretty toy.

For all I know, it may be a delight to you to find your hair standing on end at the unexpected appearance of a dead woman in a black cloak between you and the person with whom you are engaged in animated conversation.

All very well, as a mere pastime, I say.

But if you find that you are reaching a point on which your judgment is clouded, you had better shut up the magic lantern and take the rational view of the case." "Perhaps you are right." "Will you allow me to say something very frank, Unorna ?" asked Keyork with unusual diffidence.
"If you can manage to be frank without being brutal." "I will be short, at all events.

It is this.